Vital Thai Ly Hao Nam, the 10-year-old Vietnamese child who fell into a 35-meter hole last Saturday, died on Wednesday January 4.
The rescuers’ hard work wasn’t enough. Thai Ly Hao Nam, the 10-year-old Vietnamese child who fell into a 35-metre hole last Saturday, died on Wednesday January 4th. It was Doan Tan Buu, Vice President of Dong Thap Province (South) People’s Committee, who announced the sad news this Wednesday, January 4th.
According to him, the child, who was “trapped in a very deep culvert” at a bridge construction site, suffered “multiple injuries” and didn’t have “enough oxygen to survive long.” “Our priority was to save the boy. However, circumstances make it impossible for him to survive,” he continued in front of several journalists present at the scene of the tragedy.
burial
From now on, the rescuers try to climb up the child’s corpse in order to be able to organize his burial. Nevertheless, the “task is very difficult,” explained Doan Tan Buu.
Thai Ly Hao Nam was apparently looking for scrap metal when he fell into a concrete pillar just 25 centimeters wide while building a new bridge in southern Dong Thap province, a rescuer said.
According to media reports, rescuers tried several times to drill and soften the surrounding soil in order to pull up the pillar and pull the child out, but to no avail.
On Monday, January 2, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had asked federal rescuers to join local authorities’ efforts to try to rescue the boy.